How to prevent layout from overlapping with iOS status bar

I am working on tutorial for React Native navigation. I found out that all layout starts loading from top of screen instead of below of the status bar. This causes most layouts to overlap with the status bar. I can fix this by adding a padding to the view when loading them. Is this the actual way to do it? I don' think manually adding padding is an actual way to solve it. Is there a more elegant way to fix this?

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { View, Text, Navigator } from 'react-native';

export default class MyScene extends Component {
    static get defaultProps() {
            return {
                    title : 'MyScene'    
            };  
    }   
    render() {
            return (
                    <View style={{padding: 20}}> //padding to prevent overlap
                            <Text>Hi! My name is {this.props.title}.</Text>
                    </View> 
            )   
    }    
}

Below shows the screenshots before and after the padding is added.